Re: [ghc-steering-committee] Please review: deriving for empty, Shepherd: Iavor Diatchki

I'd tend to agree that we should strictly respect the standard, eschewing "benign" augmentations. Part of my discomfort with this is my experience talking to programmers who hand-waved effects in general as benign. Without a formal definition of benign such as exists in the Semantic Versioning standard I'd just as soon not add something like this without putting it behind an extension. I'm a soft +1 on the proposal as an extension. On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Richard Eisenberg wrote:

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On Aug 16, 2017, at 6:11 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote:

that touches on a more fundamental question: How strict do we want to be with the “every divergence from the standard requires an extension” rule.

I think this is a great question to ask, but I would want more community feedback on this point than just us in the committee. My stance is that, absent this discussion, we should stay quite strict on that rule.

(In the discussion, I would argue that adherence to the standard is less necessary.)

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